[ale] XKCD

[Wolf Halton]

tar xzvf somefile.tar.gz
3 seconds


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Andy Borgmann <andy at borgmann.me> wrote:

> I saw that too and thought it was hilarious.
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> On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> tar cvzf pleasedontgoboom.tar.gz /usr
> <boom>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>
>> http://xkcd.com/1168/
>>
>> cd /etc ; tar -cvf /tmp/passwd.tar passwd
>>
>> Elapsed time: 7 seconds
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